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Wondering who uses Pinterest? And if you have had success with either driving traffic to your blog or affiliate marketing on there?

I've used Pinterest personally for years and am trying to work out if I should have a separate Pinterest for my blog or use the one I have?
 

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Wondering who uses Pinterest? And if you have had success with either driving traffic to your blog or affiliate marketing on there?

I've used Pinterest personally for years and am trying to work out if I should have a separate Pinterest for my blog or use the one I have?
For promoting my blog posts, traffic wise, eeeeeeeeh. I’ll keep at it for the Monday blog posts which are the ones I promote on Pinterest. Not doing me any halm I suppose and it only takes a few minutes to make a pinable image on each blog post using Canva
 

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I used to use it for an old blog, as I could pin a picture from a blog post very easily, but I didn't really see more traffic, and I'm really unclear on how you can use Pinterest to drive lots of extra traffic to your blog? Especially here in the UK.
 

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For promoting my blog posts, traffic-wise, eeeeeeeeh. I’ll keep at it for the Monday blog posts which are the ones I promote on Pinterest. Not doing me any halm I suppose and it only takes a few minutes to make a pinable image on each blog post using Canva

Sounds so easy to make Pinterest work for traffic when people write about it. But I know from experience it is never that easy. Think I will give it a go, as you say no harm and you never know when a pin might go viral?
 

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I used to use it for an old blog, as I could pin a picture from a blog post very easily, but I didn't really see more traffic, and I'm really unclear on how you can use Pinterest to drive lots of extra traffic to your blog? Especially here in the UK.

I'm looking at loads to understand how Pinterst can drive traffic. I like Pinterest so it would be great if I can use this to help build my blog. It can work in the UK as some of the stuff I am reading is from UK bloggers and even business owners.
 

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I will have to look into dusting off my old Pinterest account in that case then! A chance for a fresh start!
 

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I used to use it for an old blog, as I could pin a picture from a blog post very easily, but I didn't really see more traffic, and I'm really unclear on how you can use Pinterest to drive lots of extra traffic to your blog? Especially here in the UK.

I had one pin go viral. Got thousands of traffic to my blog in a few days (not just views on Pinterest). Pinterest then suspended my account (presumably for the sudden irregularity) so had to contact them to get it active again and since then the pin just brings a handful daily of traffic :( though won't sniff at it!

I pin most of my posts. You have to treat it like a search engine as quite a lot of Google search results include Pinterest posts. So I find my pins of posts that are likely to solve a problem or answer a question do quite well. Thinks like reviews, how-tos etc.

If interested, the viral pin was from this post:
https://thegrowingmum.com/maternity-leave-expectation-vs-reality/
 

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When you say "doing well", how many views are you talking?

I'm just trying to understand the traffic from various social media. I have recently had one post with 2.5K+ view in 2 days. But, it's not pushing traffic to MY blog. So, 2.5K+ view sounds good. But, in actual terms, it's not. I think I just need to keep churning out more posts.

It's great to hear yours is doing well. How is the traffic stat on your blog?
 

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When I was consistently pinning every day I was getting about 200 visits to my blog from Pinterest each day. I've neglected it recently and now hardly getting any, really need to get back into it and try for more views!
 
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When I was consistently pinning every day I was getting about 200 visits to my blog from Pinterest each day. I've neglected it recently and now hardly getting any, really need to get back into it and try for more views!

Do you pin your own blog content daily, or just general pinning?
 

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